First Edition. 25 x 20 cm unpaginated with illustrations throughout. Clothbound boards, a fine copy, limited edition of 400 copies. A little faded on the front page (see picture), otherwise a very good copy. The book itself is bound in soft Japanese cloth, and beautifully printed on Japanese paper, with a tipped image on the front, and silver foil blocked titling on the cover and spine. Archard's first book, Almost, is an enigmatic exploration of beauty and decay in both physical and metaphysical form. Abstracted images take the viewer on a poetic meander through relationships with loved ones past and present, accompanied by pondering day-dream fixations on everyday objects. A peaceful book, that takes us in a labyrinth of personal memories where expectation, melancholy, oblivion, and disappearance join us or lead us in every nook; a labyrinth in which the reader has to make their own path, and see or imagine their own fiction.